Forgot to post this card I made last week...

I forgot I made this card for the color challenge at SCS this week, so wanted to get it posted while I'm cleaning up my folders, lol.

I like how this turned out, although I wish I had of added some paper piercing around the image rectangle and on the red. Would have added alot to it. I may do that yet!

Ok, I THINK thats all for today! LOL!

Card Details
Stamps: Down on the Farm and You are my Sunshine by Gina K Designs
Papers: SU! cardstock
Accessories: rectangle nesties, MS punch, $1 flower punch, half pearls of various sizes, ribbon, brad from MMs, photo corner punch, dimensionals

I actually did a 'quickie'!

WEll, quick for me! I made this card in about an hour! Most of the time took thinking it out, lol! What's funny though, it was actually this weeks sketch challenge at SCS, so shouldnt have been THAT much thinking! haha! What can I say, I'm a slow card making, even if its sketched out for me, lol. I find myself changing which side to put what on, changing WHAT I'm putting on it...blah blah...till its something I like. Really not much stamping on this card, poking holes and adding brads and glue, lol.

My favorite part of this card, besides my new 'Flirty Flowers' stamp set from Unity Stamp Company, is that cool acetate overlay that I found at Target on clearance. Its by Paper Crush and is called photo overlays. There were 12 in the pack, the total size of each overlay is about 4" x 6" so its a bit short if making the standard 4.25" x 5.5" but I made do, lol. Lots of neat designs, with dp with it really, I just didnt use it here. Super easy card! But next time I use the flirty flowers set, want to color them to show off the cute flowers in the set!

Thanks for taking the time to look! Sorry this so late today, I actually had it set up to post and didnt check to see if it did till late today, forgot to change the PM AM thingy, lol.
Have a wonderful safe holiday weekend if you are in the US! If not, still do! LOL!

Card Details:
Stamps: Flirty Flowers from Unity Stamp Co.
Papers: PTI
Accessories: clear embossing powder, brads, silver rhinestones, black sheer ribbon, acetate overlay, pop dots

BBQutee!

Howdy all! Welcome back to my last week as Melanie's guest designer...I know, I'm sad! Since this was a long month and the new release for Gina K Designs isn't until September 5th this time, Mel asked me to do one more week...didnt take me long to say YES! I have so many Little Tees made up, was no problem at all! Ok, shush up Cat and get on with the stamp! haha!

With Labor Day coming up here in the US, it made me think of BBQs! My DH side of the family always gets together on this day and cooks out...name it, they cook it that day! For this Tee, I just stamped a Tee, then kinda sketched out an apron design over the shirt, then cut that out to have as a template in case I wanted to make another one! I traced onto the DP , drew some little pockets to put the utensils in (from the set King of the Grill, also from Gina K Designs) and then just glued everything together...did a bit of shading on the Tee with a copic marker is all, cause I wanted it to look like a man shirt. The BBQ grill was stamped with versamark ink then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I did it like this because I wanted the focus to be more on the Tee than the BBQ grill. The 'kiss the cook' on the apron was done with my JustRite stamper. This was actually one of my quick cards! Only took about 2 hours, haha!

Thanks for stopping by today, and hope you have a safe wonderful holiday if you are celebrating it this weekend, and for those that arent, have a wonderful weekend too! I hope you have enjoyed me being Mel's guest designer, I know that I have thoroughly enjoyed doing it and am looking sooo forward to the new releases next month! Wonder what Mel is gonna surprise us with this time??? Whatever it is, I'm sure she has packed as much into it as she can, lol! Mel always makes sure we get our money's worth!! See ya at the release party on September 5th at the Gina K forum on Splitcoast Stampers!

Card Details:
Stamps: Little Tees by Melanie Muenchinger and King of the Grill by Rupa Shevde from Gina K Designs
Papers: DP and brown kraft cardstock from Paper Studios, SU! cardstock
Accessories: rectangle nesties, copic marker, pop dots, clear embossing powder and heat gun, paper piercing tool and pad, tag die from spellbinders, screw brads from Gina K, twine from M's, JustRite stamper.

Unity Pre-Hip Hop Challenge!

You might have noticed on my sidebar a list of blogs...those are SOME of us who just LOVE Unity Stamps! Maria had the idea of doing a customer blog hop prior to Unity's Hip Hop Thursday which occurs tomorrow! And every Thursday after that for that matter, lol! Its a blast too! Free stamps are given away and we all have a blast in the Unity Forum at SCS! So be sure and check it out!

For this first challenge we were to CASE one of the DT ladies...what a hard decision THAT was! I finally decided on CHRISTI and used her card found HERE
Here is my CASE:

I used the same stamp set intitle 'Growing in Unity'...and sorta blinged it up! (you likey Lee? LOL) AND omg, pastels!..sorta, lol! I didnt make a whole notecard set like Christi did though, didnt have enough bling to do it, lol!

Thanks for stopping by and you can click on the links to the left there and see some wonderful creations today!

Card Details:
Stamps: Growing in Unity from Unity Stamp Company
Papers: DP is basic grey, SU! cardstock
Accessories: scor-pal, silver rhinestones, oval and circle nesties, 'dream' snap from MMs, ribbon from M's, pop dots

With the summer ending...

Of course I start dreaming of Fall! That is my favorite time of year. Love the cool crisp air, and most of all the COLORS! The trees become sooo gorgeous! One of these days I'm going to go all the way to Maine and see the foliage there, I hear its breathtaking at times.

I made this card for 2 challenges really...one for a Fall challenge in the Gina K forum at SCS and the other for the technique challenge, but I only did that on the words, its called faux dry embossing, and I definitely need a stamp-a-ma thingy before attempting again! But the cards in the gallery at SCS using that technique are gorgeous! And now my card, haha!

I colored this leaf with reds, yellows, oranges, and even some green, but you cant tell it from the picture. I tried taking this picture about 10 times, and it still looses its coloring! Very frustrating...guess this is one of those cards, 'looks much better in person' lol. Cause really it does. I wanted to try and capture all the brilliant colors of the Fall...especially the reds, love those trees of that color.

Well, feeling much better today! Made 2 cards, got caught up on my daily blog reads and also received a wonderful award from Donna that I will post later with. I was so tickled *big grin*. Hope you are having a wonderful Tuesday!

Card Details
Stamps: Botanical Dreams from Gina K Designs
Papers: SU! cardstock, DP is from K&Company
Accessories: metal rub paste from Gina K Designs, circle nesties, hemp twine, leave brads from M's, paper piercing tool and pad, pop dots